INTER-BAN INTERFERENCE EVALUATION & MITIGATION: A PRELIMINARY STUDY

Published

September 27, 2013

Author(s)

Kamran Sayrafian, Martina Barbi, Mehdi Alasti, Roberto Verdone

Abstract

A Body Area Network (BAN) is a radio standard for wireless connectivity of wearable and implantable sensor nodes that are located inside or in proximity to the human body. Many applications of BANs (e.g. physiological monitoring) require reliable communication of information between the sensor nodes and their controller. As there are currently no coordinating mechanisms among multiple co-located BANs, interference caused by co-channel transmission in adjacent BANs could impact the reliability and in general quality of the service experienced by a receiver node within an individual BAN. Here, we present a simulation platform that allows for statistical evaluation of interference in multi-BAN scenarios and performance of possible mitigation algorithms. Currently, there are no mechanisms for interfering BANs to explicitly coordinate their transmissions. As our analysis show, this may result in unacceptably high interference; and therefore, high link outage probability by the intended receiver. We propose uncoordinated approaches that could help to ease cross-interference among multiple adjacent BANs. Simulation results in our preliminary studies support the effectiveness of our approach.

Conference Dates

September 25-27, 2013

Conference Location

Ghent

Conference Title

The 8th COST IC1004 MC and Scientific Meeting

Pub Type

Conferences

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Keywords

body area network, reliability, interference

Citation

Sayrafian, K. , Barbi, M. , Alasti, M. and Verdone, R. (2013), INTER-BAN INTERFERENCE EVALUATION & MITIGATION: A PRELIMINARY STUDY, The 8th COST IC1004 MC and Scientific Meeting, Ghent, -1, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=914780 (Accessed October 10, 2025)